Ryan Weathers allowed six hits and two runs – one earned – with two walks and six strikeouts over six innings to earn the win against the Tigers on Wednesday.
Weathers was able to dance around very, very consistent hard contact to outduel Tarik Skubal here. The Tigers had 10 hard-hit balls in total against him, but many of them turned into outs and whenever Weathers got into trouble, he wriggled his way out of it. His changeup was a big reason for that as his go-to put away pitch against righties and while some of them missed by a lot, the ones that were good were really good. All in all, this was a solid outing and Weathers left it with a 3.95 ERA, 95 strikeouts, and 24 walks through 86 2/3 innings so far this season. Weathers is scheduled to face the Tigers again followed by the Twins in a two-start week with both starts coming at home.
